Billiard-button



(No Model.)

G. L. GILL.

BILLIARD BUTTON.

No. 451,039., Patented Apr. 28, 1891.

WWWVQm QQ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARK L. GILL, CF MADISON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN TOOHEY, OF MILIVAUKEE, IVISCONSIN.

BlLLlARD-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,039, dated April 28, 1891.

' Application filed April 25, 1890. Serial No. 349,430. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern; of a billiard-counter when the two parts are Be it known that I, CLARK L. GILL, of put together,) and said hubs are preferably Madison, in the county of Dane, and in the provided withcircumferential grooves 17 close State of WVisconsin, have invented certain to the main portions of the said counter 011 new and useful Improvements in Billiardeach side thereof, as shown, the said counter Counters; and I do hereby declare that the having the usual transverse central perforafollowing is a full, clear, and exact description 0 half in each counter and hub-half. tion thereof. Around each hub on each side of the counter, My invention relates to billiard-counters; when the two halves are put-together, there 10 and it consists in certain peculiarities of 0011- is slippeda fastening device, such as the open struction, as will be fully set forth hereinafor spring-wire split ring C, Fig. 4, though in ter, and subsequently claimed. place thereof any suitable fastener-such as In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevaarubberbandorshortpiece of wire or string tion, and Fig. 2 an edge elevation, of my iinmay be used, said fasteners resting prefer- 15 proved device, both partially in section. Fig. ably in the described circumferential hub- 3 is a side elevation of one portion of my degrooves b.

vice, and Fig. 4 a view of one form of fast- Mydevices are designed to be made in quanening device forming a part of my present titles and sold to proprietors of billiard-tables, invention. and to use the same it is only necessary to re- 20 As is well known, games of billiards are move the fasteners C and then put the two counted by means of a series of movable halves A A of one of my counters around the counters or buttons, usually of wood, strung wire of the string in the proper place without upon awire above a billiard-table, and which disturbing said string or the other counters are moved in the progress of the game by bethereon and then quickly slip the fasteners 25 ing struck or pushed with the end of a bill- C back to place within said grooves and the iard-cue. It frequently happens during the string is immediately ready for use. progress of a game that these counters, if Having thus described my invention, what sharply struck, will split or break, thereby I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letoften delaying the game and requiringa good .ters Patent, is

30 deal of trouble in repairing the string of 1. An improved billiard-counter'construct- 8o counters, as either the wire has to be taken ed in two parts, each having an outwardlydown and the counters restrung, (with a new extending hub recessed on its outer surface, one in place of the one broken,) or else the and grooved or recessed on its outer surface broken counter is replaced with the edges, to receive a binder to unite the said sections 5 where it is split, glued together, and left with and their hubs, substantially as set forth.

' a clamp thereon until dry, thereby rendering 2. An improved billiard-counter constructthe counter temporarily useless; and the obed in two parts, each having an outwardlyject of my present invention is to obviate all extending hub recessed on its outer surface, this and provide a separable counter which and binders uniting said hubs and counter- 0 can be used to instantly and with but trifling sections and lying within said hub-recesses, o

trouble replace the broken counter. substantially as set forth.

AAconstitute the two halves of my counter In testimony that I claim the foregoing I proper, each of which maybe like the half have hereunto set myhand, at Madison, in the shown in Fig. 3; or, if preferred, the adjacent county of Dane and State of isconsimin the 5 edges on one side may be beveled off to form presence of two witnesses.

aV-shaped opening din line with the straight surface of each half, as shown in Fig. 1, for CLARK L. GILL. the ready insertion of the string-wire at that Witnesses:

1 point. Each half A is provided on both sides JOHN OLLIs,

1 5o with'the half-hub B, (to make the usual hub JOHN HOLMAN. 

